received his PhD in political philosophy in 2014. He is currently working on a project on rethinking the history of the welfare state and its implications for the development of Ukrainian society. He was a Ukraine in European Dialogue Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna between September 2017 and February 2018.
Ukrainian officials are trying to attract European investors to their country by stressing its low cost base and well-qualified workers. But as Artem Gergun notes, millions of Ukrainian citizens have grasped that these advantages are portable – and, rather than waiting for Europe to come them, are heading there for themselves.